LUMS Student Complains Of Sexual Predator In Faculty

A LUMS student has called out the university on their handling of a sexual harassment case that involved an instructor's inappropriate behavior with his students.

According to the tweet, an instructor namely Hayder al Mohammad was teaching a class this semester at the varsity. After a relatively common start to the semester, things started to go downhill.

https://twitter.com/SanaTauseef15/status/1202518521634328577?s=20

The student claims that the accused's classes became less about the course and more about general non academic things. But the situation got worse when the instructor started making lewd comments in class. From hinting to sexual  activity on campus premises to blatantly targeting students by saying things like "You look like my ex-wife" and "I don’t want to picture what parts of your body you’ll be rubbing".  At one instant he also said that he kept his zipper open on campus in order "get some air down there".

The students filed a report against the instructor  where they presented several recordings and a four-paged report of the the various instances where the instructor had displayed inappropriate behavior. The admin's attitude to them was unsatisfactory. They asked them to give the instructor a second chance and took 26 days to convene a committee on the said charges. By then, the instructor had vanished and was nowhere to be found.

The students reportedly reached out to various channels at LUMS to lodge complaint, but after the institution failed to do anything they took to social media to name and shame the instructor. According to them, this will allow future employers some information around this instructor if they choose to do a Google search on him before hiring him.

LUMS administration did not respond to Naya Daur's request for comment.

 

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